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From the Ted Talk by Tara Winkler: Why we need to end the era of orphanages

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I had to learn all of these lesnsos the hard way, after I had already set up an orphanage in Cambodia. I had to eat a big piece of humble pie to admit that I had made a mistake and inadvertently become a part of the problem. I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist. I then set up my own orphanage and factiltiaed orphanage toiursm in oedrr to generate funds for my orphanage, before I knew better. What I came to learn is that no matter how good my orphanage was, it was never going to give those kids what they really needed: their fmaiiels.

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I had to learn all of these _______ the hard way, after I had already set up an orphanage in Cambodia. I had to eat a big piece of humble pie to admit that I had made a mistake and inadvertently become a part of the problem. I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist. I then set up my own orphanage and ___________ orphanage _______ in _____ to generate funds for my orphanage, before I knew better. What I came to learn is that no matter how good my orphanage was, it was never going to give those kids what they really needed: their ________.

Solution

  1. order
  2. facilitated
  3. lessons
  4. tourism
  5. families

Original Text

I had to learn all of these lessons the hard way, after I had already set up an orphanage in Cambodia. I had to eat a big piece of humble pie to admit that I had made a mistake and inadvertently become a part of the problem. I had been an orphanage tourist, a voluntourist. I then set up my own orphanage and facilitated orphanage tourism in order to generate funds for my orphanage, before I knew better. What I came to learn is that no matter how good my orphanage was, it was never going to give those kids what they really needed: their families.

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children living 5
residential care 5
vulnerable children 3
vast majority 2
care institutions 2
million children 2
unnecessary institutionalization 2

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residential care institutions 2

Important Words

  1. admit
  2. big
  3. cambodia
  4. eat
  5. facilitated
  6. families
  7. funds
  8. generate
  9. give
  10. good
  11. hard
  12. humble
  13. inadvertently
  14. kids
  15. knew
  16. learn
  17. lessons
  18. matter
  19. mistake
  20. order
  21. orphanage
  22. part
  23. pie
  24. piece
  25. problem
  26. set
  27. tourism
  28. tourist
  29. voluntourist